We know that the Senate
is fast-tracking a secretly-devised healthcare plan that will not be
subject to a hearing or a debate, and the public may only have a day or two to
read it before it is voted on. Let’s use this Trumpcare Toolkit
to get phone numbers to call, links send some instant tweets, links for FB
posts, and to sign a letter to the Republican senators asking them to
#LetUsTestify: https://www.trumpcaretoolkit.org/

From
Postcards
for America: PCA for ALL STATES to write your OWN
REPS about HR669 & S200 Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act
of 2017. This bill prohibits the
President from using the Armed Forces to conduct a first-use nuclear
strike without a congressional declaration of war expressly authorizing
such strike. "First-use nuclear strike" means a nuclear weapons
attack against an enemy that is conducted without the President determining
that the enemy has first launched a nuclear strike against the United
States or a U.S. ally. The decision to launch a nuclear strike is
currently a two-man system with The President and the Secretary of
Defense. We can find more details here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_q11DH-FCDWKyCPXbH9GU09IxA0lTZ_uQqaCV1oAWyk/edit?usp=sharing.

The EPA House
budget hearing is Thursday,
June 15 at 1:00 EDT. Let’s call our representatives and tell
them to fully fund the EPA and to keep up the good work at EPA’s National
Vehicle and Emissions Laboratory and keep the Vehicle Greenhouse Standards
in place. Our friends at the lab
have given us more information: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0k1qCMVpKZpYVdWQS10a2JJWE0/view

Vice
President Mike Pence tweeted out that with the leadership of our dear
president, “we will rescue the American people from the disaster of
Obamacare”: https://twitter.com/VP/status/873610371818565635 Now
would be a good time to let the VP know what you think of this: The White
House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, DC, 20500

While
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson tried to calm the waters in the Qatar
situation, Trump doubled down in the opposite direction. This is the state
of our current international diplomacy presence on the world stage: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-gulf-qatar-sanctions-idUSKBN18Z2ZU Since
Trump shows no sign of slowing down his swift undercuts to the Secretary,
we can ask Tillerson why he continues to try to prop Trump up:Secretary Rex Tillerson,U.S.
Department of State, 2201 C Street, NW, Washington, DC 20520

Let's continue
urging our MoC to call for an independent commission to investigate the
Russian interference in our 2016 election, as well as ties to the Trump
campaign. MomsRising also has a form letter that we can send to
Congress: http://action.momsrising.org/sign/Comey_IndCommission/

Attorney General Jeff
Sessions has been summoned to appear before the Senate Intelligence
Committeeon Tuesdayto be
questioned about a) the extent of his contact with Russian officials
during the presidential campaign, and b) the extent of his involvement in
the firing of former FBI Director James Comey. There is some talk about
the hearing being private rather than public. We don't see why it would be
private, and neither does the ACLU. " There is absolutely no reason why the hearing room
doors should be shut, cameras turned off, and all American citizens left
in the dark when Sessions testifies. Democracy shouldn’t take place behind
closed doors." http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/sessions-senate-intelligence-committee/ Let's call Chairman
Burr (R-NC) (202) 224-3154and Vice Chairman Warner (D-VA)
202-224-2023, to let him know that we the people demand a
public hearing: (202) 224-1700.

Trumpcare backer and white nationalist bankroller Greg
Gianforte won his special election in spite of physically assaulting a
reporter asking him about Trump's health care bill. Today, he will plead
guilty to those charges. (http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/337190-gianforte-to-plead-guilty-to-assaulting-reporter)
We cannot allow someone who has confessed to using violence in response to
being asked a simple question by a journalist to sit in the House of
Representatives. Let's call our representatives and demand they
immediately begin the procedure to expel him from Congress.

We are invited to join
RISE Stronger for an all hands call next Thursday, June 15 at 8pm. Andy
Kim, founder of RISE, will walk us through where RISE is today, what is to
come in the future, an assessment of the current United States of
Resistance landscape, and some exciting new opportunities for him and the
team at RISE Stronger. They hope we will take an hour to join them next
Thursday. Please use call in number (515) 739-1205 and Access Code: 364329.

In celebration
of World Refugee Day onJune 20th, the Stand With Refugees campaign will focus on
placing calls to our MoC fromJune 12th-16thto tell them that we want policies that
support our refugee population. We can join in by visitinghttp://www.standwithrefugees.us/or by texting "stand" to 313131
to set up a reminder to call our MoC.

The resistance
organization Daily Action, made popular through its daily action text
alerts, has launched a Daily Action Book Club to help educate and inspire
us to keep going. Each month, participants can discuss readings with the
author and learn how each selection relates to our current political
climate. We can learn more about the book club and check out previous
months' reading selections at their website https://dailyaction.org/book-club/

Here is a very telling
interview with Mikhail
Fishman, the editor-in-chief of the Moscow Times, an
English-language weekly newspaper published in Moscow.A Russian citizen and an
outspoken critic of Putin, Fishman has covered Russian politics for more
than 15 years. For the past year, he has monitored the increasingly bizarre
relationship between Putin and Trump, with a particular focus on Putin’s
strategic aims.https://www.vox.com/conversations/2017/2/22/14697718/donald-trump-putin-russia-kremlin-hillary-clinton

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Rogan’s List is a daily, thoroughly vetted action list for people who are unhappy with the current administration and who want to become more politically involved, but do not have time for the research. The compiler, Susan Goodrich Rogan, is a retired librarian who has worked in university, community college, and elementary school libraries. She is the mother of eleven and the grandmother of nine..